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I've never heard of that term before...just wondering. Thanks!
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It refers to a town or region once occupied by members of the Hanseatic League - see below.
The Hanseatic League (Dutch: de Hanze, Estonian: hansa, German: die Hanse, Polish: Hanza, Swedish: Hansan) comprised an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over the Baltic Sea and most of Northern Europe for a time in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, between the 13th and 17th centuries. |
